Biogeography: Recent Advances and Future DirectionsJames Allan Taylor Biogeography has been one of the great growth areas in geography in recent years, with much new research work and many new developments taking place. This book presents an authoritative, up-to-date, international review of all the major biogeographical themes. The chapters define each theme and its place within biogeography and consider the methods of study adopted. Each chapter then assesses recent trends and the latest state of the art, and concludes by examining where future developments are likely. Many case-studies and examples are provided, from throughout the world, including North America. |
Contents
HISTORY OF BIOGEOGRAPHY | 1 |
THE SPATIAL DIMENSION IN BIOGEOGRAPHY | 25 |
TIME SCALES IN BIOGEOGRAPHY | 63 |
BIOGEOGRAPHY AND ECOSYSTEMS | 106 |
VEGETATION ANALYSIS | 132 |
THE GEOGRAPHY OF ANIMAL COMMUNITIES | 163 |
SOILS IN ECOSYSTEMS | 191 |
BIOCLIMATES | 234 |
THE MANLAND PARADOX | 254 |
REMOTE SENSING IN BIOGEOGRAPHY | |
BIOGEOGRAPHY HERITAGE AND CHALLENGE | |
GLOSSARY | |
Common terms and phrases
agricultural approach associated bioclimates biogeography biological biomes British Calluna Cambridge Chorley cladists classification climatic change colonisation communities concept continental drift crops cycling distribution diversity dominant Ecology ecosystem Edward Arnold endemic energy environment environmental evolution example extinction factors farm fauna Figure Flandrian Flenley flora formation Geog geomorphology grassland groups habitats imagery increase infrared Island Biogeography islands land land-use Landsat London major mapping natural Nothofagus number of species nutrient organisms Oxford particular patterns peat pedogenesis Pedology photosynthesis physiological Phytogeography plant and animal Plant Geography plate tectonics Pleistocene pollen population primary productivity problems processes Quaternary radiation rain forest range rates reflectance regions relation relationships remote sensing sample scale Science sclerophyll selected shrub Shrublands Simmons soil spatial structure surface Table Tansley Taylor temperate temperature Theoretical Ecology theory tree tropical types University Press variable variations Wales woodland York zones